Senior Program Manager, Air Vehicle Integration

About Merlin:

Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.

About You:

You are a program owner - you own your work and do not pass the baton - your programs are your responsibility for success. You're a strategic operator with deep program leadership in aerospace, autonomy, or safety-critical systems, and you're equally comfortable in an STC review, a hardware integration bench, and a customer program review. You bring technical fluency (you don't need to be the engineer, but you talk to one credibly), certification literacy, and the operational rigor to keep a multi-aircraft integration portfolio on baseline. You thrive amid ambiguity and high execution velocity, and you build trust with operators, primes, and certification authorities alike.